Number worksheet — GCSE Foundation

1.A café buys 18 boxes of teabags at £3.45 each, and sells all the teabags for £108 in total. Work out the café's profit.

2.A café sells ice cream in three flavours: vanilla, mango and pistachio. Isla buys a cone with two scoops, using two different flavours, one for the bottom scoop and one for the top scoop. Work out how many different cones she could buy.

3.A jug holds 1.8 litres of juice. Priya pours out 3/4 of a litre to fill a glass. Work out how much juice is left in the jug, in millilitres.

4.A water tank holds 80 litres when full. It currently contains 60 litres. Work out what fraction of the tank is empty.

5.Postage on a parcel is calculated as £4.60, correct to the nearest 20p. Which of these could not be the actual cost of the postage?

6.Write 260,000 in standard form.

7.Write these fractions in order, starting with the smallest: 2/3, 3/5, 5/6, 1/2

8.A spinner has 4 colours and a coin has 2 sides. Work out how many different outcomes are possible when the spinner is spun once and the coin is tossed once.

9.Write 0.0038 in standard form.

10.A shelf is 60 cm long, correct to the nearest 10 cm. Write down the upper bound for the length of the shelf, in centimetres.

11.A restaurant adds a service charge of 15% to a bill of £120. Work out the service charge.

12.A cinema has 250 seats. 12% of the seats are reserved. Work out how many of the seats are reserved.

13.Given that 2⁵ = 32, work out 2⁶.

14.2/3 of an amount of money is £30. Work out the amount.

15.Which of these numbers rounds to 0.048 when rounded to 2 significant figures?